Kol ha’olam kulo gesher tzar me’od, veha’ikar lo lehitpahed klal (All the world is a very narrow bridge, and the most important thing is not to be overwhelmed by fear).

Rabbi Nachman of Breslav

The wisdom of bridges comes from the fact that they know both sides, they know both shores!

Mehmet Murat Ildan

But misfortunes do not last forever (this they have in common with joys) but pass away or are at least diminished and become lost in oblivion. Life on the kapia always renews itself despite everything and the bridge does not change with the years or with the centuries or with the most painful turns in human affairs. All these pass over it, even as the unquiet waters pass beneath its smooth and perfect arches.

Ivo Andric, The Bridge on the Drina

Something intended to reconcile or connect two seemingly incompatible things.